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Red Eve

CHAPTER X
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God's blessing and mine be on you, and to Richard the archer, greetings.

Dunwich has heard how he shot the foul-tongued Frenchman before the great battle closed, and the townsfolk lit a bonfire on the walls and feasted all the archers in his honour.
Andrew Arnold.
"I have found another letter," said Master de Cressi, when Hugh had finished reading, "which I remember Sir Andrew charged me to give to you also," and he handed him a paper addressed in a large, childish hand.
Hugh broke its silk eagerly, for he knew that writing.
"Hugh," it began simply, "Clement the Pope will not void my false marriage unless I appear before him, and this as yet I cannot do because of the French wars.

Moreover, he sets the curse of the Church upon me and any man with whom I shall dare to re-marry until this be done.

For myself I would defy the Church, but not for you or for children that might come to us.

Moreover, the holy father, Sir Andrew, forbids it, saying that God will right all in His season and that we must not make Him wroth.


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